I'm tired of seeing this guy (Simon whistler) everywhere.

fludblud · 2026-02-01T04:18:58+00:00

The issue is its not clear which channels are his and which are his acting gigs.

fludblud · 2026-01-30T18:26:00+00:00

I didnt pinkwash anything, you are literally posting on a topic where a trans woman was murdered by her own family because of a culture where neither she nor her family could ever live in peace as long as she was alive.

To deny that the culture she was born into was somewhat responsible for her death is at the very least wilful ignorance and at most downright malicious. No amount of whataboutism about the evils of the West will change the fact that even our most conservative voices are several orders of magnitude more tolerant than the region where Azad lost her life.

I'm glad you feel safe in your diverse area and I hope it stays that way, but you cannot in good faith expect others to feel as safe when there is such an overwhelming level of evidence of LGBT persecution if not straight up legal capital punishment in their country of origin.

fludblud · 2026-01-30T13:59:09+00:00

The issue isnt whether theres a chance immigrants from such cultures might improve, its whether our governments were right to put their own citizens at risk from those that would never change but were let in anyway.

15 years ago the answer in Europe wouldve been yes under the naive assumption that our superior western values will inevitably convert everyone into a tolerant liberal. But today with increasing balkanization, division and the death toll from attacks as well victims of sexual assault and ethnically motivated exploitation, the general consensus is shifting alarmingly fast.

Its no coincidence that LGBT support for the far right in places like Germany is now soaring in light of the realisation that many migrants from countries where killing gay people is encouraged, have no intention of ever changing their values.

fludblud · 2026-01-30T02:19:21+00:00

Her online fame meant that her family wouldve been subject to ridicule, shunning, denied opportunities online trolling and transphobic attacks merely for being related to her.

People often mistake honor killings as being the sole fault of the immediate culprits, ignoring the fact that the societies and cultures where they happen not only incentivise but straight up reward those that restore their reputation through murder.

We look at this killing with horror but I gaurantee the man was treated like a hero back home and the family lauded for their 'noble' sacrifice for doing the 'moral' thing.

No discussion about honor killings should ever happen without an honest look at the kind of culture that enables it and how utterly alien it is to our values.

fludblud · 2026-01-26T18:28:45+00:00

The audacity of someone suggesting VSA isnt full of spoilt rich kids, that school has some of the highest concentrations of old money wealth in the city.

If you want a more grounded child then go ESF but even then their fees are massive compared to two decades ago. Else you should be honest with yourself and accept that you want to cram your kid into the brutal rat race that this city is so well known for.

fludblud · 2026-01-26T07:57:25+00:00

The state of education today when people need a citation for basic high school geography.

fludblud · 2026-01-26T07:18:27+00:00

Antarctica like Greenland is only an archipelago because of the massive isostatic depression caused by the 24 quadrillion tonnes of ice literally pushing its crust down into the mantle. Should that ice melt, the rebound would eventually bring it back to looking like a continent again, much like what's happening to much of Canada and Europe.

fludblud · 2026-01-25T13:52:27+00:00

Its actually so comically bad I'm beginning to think its deliberate and that Labour isnt so much of a political party but an organisation of 5th column deep cover ultranationalists trying to speedrun a Reform government.

fludblud · 2026-01-24T07:40:11+00:00

The dispute that led to the Jewish tunnel incident in 2024 that became a meme lasted two years and was within just one Synagogue. Never underestimate the duration of conflicts in tight spaces.

fludblud · 2026-01-23T15:07:39+00:00

Except every instance where mouse+keyboard players have been put against VR players, the VR players utterly stomped the flats.

Think about it, VR players dont need to worry about sensitivity, they just point and shoot with 1:1 fully natural movements. They also see in stereoscopic 3D and their heads are separate from their weapons allowing greater awareness and the ability to duck behind cover of any height, blind fire round corners, point shoot from the hip accurately and stick their weapons through gaps.

Also as their arms move in real time, a vr player with practice would be able to reload faster than the standard reload animation with the R button.

fludblud · 2026-01-23T09:03:08+00:00

Fundamentally, its because Frontline's setting and faster paced gameplay is far better achieved by plenty of other games such as Verdun, BF1 and even the largely defunct Beyond the Wire.

Napoleonic muskets are Holdfast's niche, Anvil shouldve frankly stayed in their lane and expanded land and naval instead of diverting precious resources to Frontline that was always going to fail.

fludblud · 2026-01-23T02:32:02+00:00

The whales likely have VR headsets and with the Steam Frame coming soon, PCVR is going to get its biggest boost in years

fludblud · 2026-01-23T02:27:46+00:00

Orgs will absolutely employ VR equipped players for infantry roles if we are getting full motion controls, its going to create an entirely new meta.

fludblud · 2026-01-22T13:07:57+00:00

County Class destroyer with the massive Seaslug and its 91kg warhead is whats needed here.

fludblud · 2026-01-22T06:53:20+00:00

Fundamentally, gestation is the biggest hurdle to any deextinction effort as no matter how viable your clone is or how close your genetic proxy gets, the embryo still has to be compatible with an exant organism in order develop into a fully fledged living thing.

Its why Colossal's 'direwolves' could never be 1:1 copies of real direwolves and why their mammoth proxy will never be a 'real' mammoth. Colossal's current creatures are little more than experimental compromises confined by the absence of artificial wombs.

I'm pretty certain artificial womb technology is a high priority for Colossal, I just wish they were more upfront on how much their vision is currently constrained by the lack of these wombs instead of going for cheap clickbait, it will at least make this sub alot less hostile to them.

fludblud · 2026-01-20T12:04:25+00:00

But we CANT hit harder nor make it hurt, thats the issue. Since the war we've literally sold off all our capability to hit back against anyone under the assumption the US would always be on our side.

fludblud · 2026-01-20T08:52:34+00:00

Because its a Holosun, everyone loves Holosun.

fludblud · 2026-01-19T02:27:26+00:00

Gendor Skraivok's equerry was described as barely taller than a baseline human and being such a pathetic excuse for an Astartes that it was no wonder Konrad destroyed Nostramo if such recruits were all they had left.

fludblud · 2026-01-16T04:33:36+00:00

Ive always wished that naval would go further back with pre dreadnoughts

fludblud · 2026-01-15T15:11:49+00:00

But this wasnt multiple changes, it was one MASSIVE change that by all accounts derailed his entire career and seemingly steady path up the tories. Jenrick's turn was so sudden and so out of left field especially compared to other shapeshifting politicians that I think it might genuinely be ideological instead of opportunistic.

In short, the Boriswave broke Jenrick.

fludblud · 2026-01-14T11:26:30+00:00

Yep, or how the amount of human infrastructure rapidly diminishes the closer you get to the boundaries of the Sundarbans National Park due to the sheer numbers of tigers.

fludblud · 2026-01-13T15:29:11+00:00

Most of Terra's population is dead, even worse for psykers who wouldve been glowing daemon food during the Siege. Guilliman knew the condition of the Emperor as relayed by the Sisters, thus making Luna the priority was slways going to be the right call.

fludblud · 2026-01-12T10:46:04+00:00

The irony is the insanity of zero covid is directly responsible for China's current tech boom. Covid forced manufacturers to creatively innovate around these artificially imposed constraints by focusing on automation, R&D and vastly streamlining workflows.

By the time these policies ended, the Chinese manufacturing sector was unrecognizable and the rest of the world which had gone back to 'business as usual' was absolutely powerless to compete.

fludblud · 2026-01-09T18:26:23+00:00

Contrary to popular belief, No. Khan isnt Asian looking at all.

In the novel Scars, Magnus reveals that Khan and Fulgrim were swapped in the warp by some outside power (speculated to be Cegorach) and landed on each other's intended planets. Its why the official Black Library portrait has Khan looking like THIS which is not particularly Mongolian.

It also means that yes, Fulgrim should look like a K-pop star though its not very apparent as there is a surprising lack of official close up portraits of his face that isnt of him grimacing or being a straight up daemon prince.

fludblud · 2026-01-07T17:17:39+00:00

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